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The Guardian: Republican victory in Louisiana, hard-right turn for once bipartisan state
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:20 am
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:20 am
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When Louisiana’s attorney general, Jeff Landry, won the open gubernatorial primary on 14 October, it not only ended eight years of relatively productive bipartisan control of the state’s government: it marked a hard-right shift in Louisiana’s politics that could set back environmental policy and human and civil rights for decades to come.
Landry’s outright victory in the jungle primary – a system unique to Louisiana, in which all voters, regardless of party, vote on all candidates at the local, state and federal levels – shocked voters and pundits in the state alike. Landry was long favored to triumph, but it was expected he would be forced into a runoff. Ultimately, the state’s Democratic party offered no meaningful resistance to Landry’s campaign, and he cruised to a win, capturing more than 50% of the votes cast in a low-turnout race.
The morning after the election, Robert Mann, a political science professor at Louisiana State University and a frequent critic of Landry, announced he would be leaving his position. He said he had no confidence the school’s administration would protect him from the changing political headwinds.
To outsiders, Mann’s reaction may seem dramatic. Louisianans understood fully: in 2021, Landry used his office to try to pressure LSU into dismissing the professor over his argument that the university needed to require students to test regularly for Covid-19.
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In his election’s immediate aftermath, Landry moved to shore up his control of an already conservative legislature. Within three days, the state senator Cameron Henry, a hardline conservative and Landry ally, had cleared the field to become his chamber’s next president.
While Republicans have controlled both chambers throughout the eight years the outgoing Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, has spent in office, the senate’s leadership in particular has been generally less hardline than either rank-and-file members or Landry.
Critically, they have worked with both Edwards and Democratic lawmakers on a host of issues.
Landry, of course, is having none of that. As the Times-Picayune also noted when writing about Henry’s ascension, Landry has made it clear in private conversations he wants people loyal to him in key leadership roles.
That means he is unlikely to face resistance to many of his policies. For women, Black people, the LGBTQ+ community and others in the hard right’s crosshairs, that’s an ominous possibility.
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Those include a “don’t say gay” bill banning classroom discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity, anti-drag measures, additional restrictions on access to healthcare for trans people, further criminalization of abortion and contraceptives, and deeper erosion of the state’s barely existent gun control measures.
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Environmental protections will also be on the chopping block. Landry memorably heckled Barack Obama during the former president’s 2011 State of the Union address, holding up a sign that said “drilling = jobs”. With the petroleum industry still one of Louisiana’s single most powerful forces, areas like Cancer Alley – a stretch along the Mississippi River overrun by refineries and pollution – will probably be especially hard-hit as Republicans roll back the state’s modest pollution controls.
“On social welfare issues, we’ll be Florida on steroids,” said JP Morrell, the New Orleans city council president and a former state legislator.
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While memories of Jindal’s disastrous tenure are still fresh in Louisiana’s collective conscience, Landry and most Republican state legislators are budget hawks. In fact, Republicans are already discussing significant changes to the tax code that would reduce what wealthy people and corporations pay – even as they are contemplating a new round of cuts to education and other safety net programs.
“It will be like the Jindal years, but worse” if Republicans decide to go that route, Morrell said.
That means Democrats, who represent large urban areas like New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport, will be spending whatever political capital they have accumulated simply protecting their communities.
Invoking his city’s status as the most culturally relevant on the global stage, Morrell said: “For better or for worse, you have to protect New Orleans from the worst of it. You’re not going to save the rest of the state.”
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Over-dramatic much?
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:22 am to ragincajun03
Eight years of that retarded sloth makes Louisiana a “bipartisan” state?
State’s been pretty much GOP since Katrina between Landrieu screwing the pooch and the disruption of the NOLA machine.
JBE winning was a perfect storm for the Dems that is not really repeatable as of now.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:23 am to ragincajun03
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Louisiana
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bipartisan state
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:23 am to ragincajun03
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That means Democrats, who represent large urban areas like New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Shreveport, will be spending whatever political capital they have accumulated simply protecting their communities.
This is rich.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:24 am to ragincajun03
Landry will be very good for this state. Edwards was not.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:25 am to ragincajun03
The Guardian. LOL. They are a communist mouthpiece.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:25 am to caleb07
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Edwards was not.
Understatement.
The annual scare tactics to close down LSU and throw granny out of the nursing home should have seen him strung up.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:28 am to ragincajun03
The author, John Stanton, writes like he belongs on The View.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:28 am to ragincajun03
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The Guardian:
Propaganda rag
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:30 am to ragincajun03
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For better or for worse, you have to protect New Orleans
Gots to save the chocolate city
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:32 am to SloaneRanger
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The Guardian. LOL. They are a communist mouthpiece.
Indeed.
Mouthpiece of the far left.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:33 am to ragincajun03
I hate this fricking planet
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:37 am to ragincajun03
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once bipartisan state
I guess their definition of “bipartisan” is Roberto Boucher vetoing everything the legislature passed
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:41 am to ragincajun03
This is the same news source that thinks anyone to the right of Marx is “right wing”
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:41 am to ragincajun03
Every criticism made against Landry in the article is good for our state, except cutting education(if that accusation is factual).
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:43 am to ragincajun03
They big mad that we won’t be subjected to Faghorn Leghorn 2.0
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:44 am to ragincajun03
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could set back environmental policy and human and civil rights for decades to come.
Dude. Dude. Dude.
It begins here:
Executor Order dated 3/16/20
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Gatherings are limited to no more than 50 people.
Casinos and bars will be closed.
Restaurants will be closed to patrons eating on site. Take-out, drive-through and delivery orders are allowed.
Movie theaters will be closed.
Stay at home order comes out 3/22/20.
Tony Spell arrested for holding church
How about killing a black person by State Police?
Wiki article on Ronald Greene
How about JBE knowing about it and acting like he didnt?
NPR article on JBE knowing about Greene death but keeping quiet
shite is hilarious.
Could go on for days.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:44 am to ragincajun03
If things were do great under JBE, why were folks leaving by the thousands? Why don’t our young people stay home? Where were all the candidates running on the Edwards’ accomplishments?
The JBE legacy will be the enormous growth he presided over in state government. In 2016/17 his first budget, the state spent 2.4 million more dollars than the previous year 27.2 million versus 29.6?million).
Spending increased every year after that until it peaked at 45.2 million dollars in 21/22. Last year it “fell” to only 43 million.
Landry will have his work cut out for him. People learn to count on all these services, but they only came because of huge Federal handouts and a huge tax increase JBE rammed through.
The JBE legacy will be the enormous growth he presided over in state government. In 2016/17 his first budget, the state spent 2.4 million more dollars than the previous year 27.2 million versus 29.6?million).
Spending increased every year after that until it peaked at 45.2 million dollars in 21/22. Last year it “fell” to only 43 million.
Landry will have his work cut out for him. People learn to count on all these services, but they only came because of huge Federal handouts and a huge tax increase JBE rammed through.
This post was edited on 10/23/23 at 11:32 am
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:45 am to teke184
Like you said, Louisiana has been a deep red state since, at least, the 2005-2006. JBE's tenure as governor was more of a shining example GOP stupidity than any reality of "bipartisanship".
First, the GOPe stupidly lined up behind Vitter...even though the voters didn't love him. Then, after Vitter reached the runoff, the other "conservative" candidates bent over backwards to get Edwards elected.
The second term was conservative voter stupidity. They got angry at each other because their brand of "conservative" did or did not reach the runoff.
This year the GOPe lined up behind Landry early. He wasn't my preferred candidate. He's not who I voted for in the primary. But he wasn't toxic like Vitter and was at least a well known name statewide. The result was what it should often be in LA now...a runaway victory in a state where democrats are virtually capped at 40% of any statewide vote.
First, the GOPe stupidly lined up behind Vitter...even though the voters didn't love him. Then, after Vitter reached the runoff, the other "conservative" candidates bent over backwards to get Edwards elected.
The second term was conservative voter stupidity. They got angry at each other because their brand of "conservative" did or did not reach the runoff.
This year the GOPe lined up behind Landry early. He wasn't my preferred candidate. He's not who I voted for in the primary. But he wasn't toxic like Vitter and was at least a well known name statewide. The result was what it should often be in LA now...a runaway victory in a state where democrats are virtually capped at 40% of any statewide vote.
Posted on 10/23/23 at 10:52 am to Alt26
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The second term was conservative voter stupidity. They got angry at each other because their brand of "conservative" did or did not reach the runoff.
Any incumbent governor in Louisiana is pretty much a shoe in to win re-election if you haven’t really fricked up.
EWE conceded in 1987 during an economic downturn for the region and was playing the long game assuming Roemer would frick up too much to get re-elected. He was proven right in 1991 when Roemer didn’t even make the runoff.
Treen lost in 1983 but that was a function of EWE being term limited out of the 1979 race. He won the next time he was eligible.
Blanco wouldn’t have won against Jindal in 2007 and declined to run again because she knew that her Katrina dithering would get shoved right up her dumb arse.
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